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House Doesn’t Mean Home How My Travels and Self-Development Experiments Influenced Me and My Thinking About Life Natalia Bielczyk

House Is Not Home: How My Travels Influenced My Thoughts About Life

House is not home. After years of travels and self-development experiments, I reflect on what home means to me, what motivates me, and why the digital-nomad life is not my path.

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On Being Selfish

This Wednesday, I woke up with a twisted stomach and a fast heartbeat, and I asked myself, “Why doesn’t this monster finally leave me alone and let me go?” I went through cognitive therapy, hypnotherapy, SSRIs, meditation, sauna, vacations, socializing, self-care… Nothing works. Just nothing. It’s only getting worse and worse. And then, I found out why.

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Natalia In The Land of NFTs My Personal Journey Nonfungible Tokens

Natalia In The Land of NFTs. My Personal Journey and What I Learned So Far

I first learned about NFTs in December 2017, ignored them, and finally stepped into the jungle in November 2021. Here is my personal NFT journey — the Hapebeast grind, the rugs, the scams, and what I learned about value, talent, and hype along the way.

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How Setting a Company Has Changed My Life, Personal Development Wise

The moment I set up a company was the moment I won my life — not because of income or freedom, but because of the gradual changes on the inside. Here is how running a company rewired the way I react, decide, and relate to people.

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Dreamers Gonna Dream. On Personal Goals Baked During the Pandemic

In the pandemic, I had way more than enough time to think about what I want from life and what kind of mission I would like to accomplish. The concept was baking in the back of my head for a long time. And here it is.

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Working On Myself: Why I don’t Want To Be Famous

A rainy evening in Nijmegen with Philip Zimbardo taught me something about fame. The audience ignored 44 years of his work on everyday heroism and only wanted juicy details from the Stanford Prison Experiment. Watching him answer the same questions for a lifetime convinced me: fame is a prison, and I would rather keep working on myself.

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Should you consider working as a career advisor

Should You Consider Working As a Career Advisor?

The bright side of career advisory gets plenty of airtime. Here is the other side: it is hard to get noticed, easy to get robbed, your private life can melt, clients flood you with regrets, and the job is never done. Twenty honest reasons to think twice before becoming a career strategist.

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The Only Justice in the World

In general, this world is not just. Some people are born more wealthy than others. Some people are born prettier than others. Some people naturally have more energy than others. Some people learn faster than others. Some people, for some reason, receive more recognition and appreciation for their work than others. But, there is one thing just for all.

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The Signs In Your Career Development

The Signs In Your Career Development

Are there any signs in heaven and earth that can tell us along the way what we should eventually be doing in our professional lives — these little cues thrown to our feet along the way that we tend to ignore until there are so many of them that the truth just becomes obvious?

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